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By Anjali Udasi
Cloudcraft is a tool that lets cloud architects design and visualize cloud infrastructure. It acts as a digital canvas, helping you map out everything from simple diagrams to complex systems. If you’re working on a project plan or brainstorming ideas, Cloudcraft makes it easier to see how all the pieces come together. In this post, we’ll talk about what makes Cloudcraft useful for cloud professionals and how to get the most out of it.
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By Anjali Udasi
When it comes to monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure on AWS, CloudWatch Metrics is your best friend. CloudWatch helps you track key metrics in real time, providing the data you need to maintain system performance, troubleshoot issues, and gain deeper insights into your environment. But like most things in AWS, it can take some getting used to. To help you make the most of CloudWatch Metrics, we've put together this comprehensive guide.
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By Preeti Dewani
Logs are essential for understanding what’s going on inside your application. However raw JSON logs can be hard to read. pino-pretty is a tool that formats Pino logs into a more readable, color-coded format, making it easier to debug and understand what’s happening in your app.
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By Prathamesh Sonpatki
Encountering an "upstream connect error" often indicates an issue with your network or server configuration. Whether you're managing microservices or using a load balancer, this error points to a breakdown in communication. This guide will walk you through troubleshooting and resolving the issue effectively.
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By Ujjwal Goyal
Cron jobs are an essential tool for automating repetitive tasks in backend development. Whether you're running scheduled tasks like sending out emails, cleaning up databases, or performing regular backups, a cron job in Node.js can handle the heavy lifting. In this guide, we’ll walk through everything you need to know about cron jobs in Node.js, from setup to execution.
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By Anjali Udasi
When building modern applications, choosing the right communication protocol is crucial for performance, scalability, and ease of integration. Among the most common options, gRPC, HTTP, and REST often come up in discussions, each with its strengths and weaknesses. But how do you know which one to use? Let’s break it down in this comprehensive comparison.
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By Anjali Udasi
Docker has transformed how we deploy, manage, and scale applications. As applications grow in complexity, the need for effective orchestration increases. This is where Docker Swarm comes into play. Docker’s native clustering and orchestration tool simplifies the management of multi-container applications. Together, Docker and Docker Swarm form a powerful combination for building and scaling modern, distributed systems.
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By Anjali Udasi
Compare Splunk and Datadog in this detailed guide to understand their features, strengths, and key differences for your monitoring needs.
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By Anjali Udasi
Discover the top 7 AWS alternatives, comparing features, benefits, and what makes each one a strong cloud solution for your needs.
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By Anjali Udasi
Learn how data observability helps your business catch issues early, ensuring accurate insights, smarter decisions, and smoother growth.
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By Last9
Levitate is a high-cardinality monitoring tool and a telemetry data warehouse with support for metrics, events, logs, and traces. Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatibility makes it easy to get started with a hassle-free monitoring journey, be it starting from scratch or even swapping out your existing monitoring tool. Used by engineering teams worldwide at companies like Replit, Disney+ Hotsar, Clevertap, Probo, Quickwork, Axio, and more.
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By Last9
The most apt alert rules toolkit for your Prometheus setup. Connect your Prometheus setup. Discover components emitting metrics. Get recommendations of rules to be applied.
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By Last9
Last9 Levitate’s integration with LaunchDarkly enables change intelligence with feature flag events. Visualize the feature flag events as Change Event annotations in Levitate to correlate system health.
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By Last9
Last9 Levitate’s integration with LaunchDarkly enables change intelligence with feature flag events. Visualize the feature flag events as Change Event annotations in Levitate to correlate system health.
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By Last9
Using template variables to insert dynamic values based on labels for use cases like detailed alert descriptions, routing links, etc.
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By Last9
Are you using Prodvana.io for deployments? Send a change event to Levitate for every deployment from Prodvana.
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By Last9
You have probably heard of OpenTelemetry in the context of traces. But did you know OpenTelemetry also supports metrics with a comprehensive, forward-looking data model and SDKs? When it comes to metrics, one thinks of Prometheus, but Otel metrics provide exciting ideas such as cumulative deltas, exponential histograms, and more! This talk will demystify everything about Otel Metrics, from the data model to APIs to how to get started. We will cover the differences between Otel Metrics and Prometheus and explain the reasons why people get excited about using Otel Metrics.
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By Last9
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Last9 provides tools to improve Reliability in large-scale cloud-native environments.
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